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'IIIE LONDON JOURNAPS • DAILY tracts from the Morning opt', s, Jan. 7, 1826. [MORNING HERALD.) The French .boost much not only of their hu inanity, but the delicacy of theirrfeelings. They considerit little better than a proof of barbarism is an. English audience to tolerate the exhibition of mimic slaughter on the stage, al their own •sensibilities require . that 'the operations of tke ii.aggar and other instruments of death, should 1)r, more decently, performed behind the scenes. *he tenacity, however, with , which they cling to ttte Slave Trade, shows, that .they have more sympathy for the sufferings which dramatists de• scribe, than for those which tyranny makes its victims suffer. It may be said that the people, of France are not generally chargeable with the acts which are committed by the criminal avarice. ofsomtnercial men. We think,, notwithstanding that thegeneral passiveness of public opinion on the its.bject in France, is like a tacit approbation, by society, of this nefarious traffic. Theevil conse-: trendy seems to increase rather than diminish. Little dues it avail the interests of honanity that government induced that of France to agree to 'abolish the Slave Trade. The theory was con, 4t,edeii;bilt the practice remains as obstinate as 'ever. • Indeed the unhappy beings whom we would have saved from the most degrading con dition and servitude, are replaced by our inter- Ilience in a worse state than before, for the traffic being now illegal, the dealers in this " human -ineschandize," cause the forlorn population which they, crowd into their floating dungeons, to en ,Onre more privation and torment than formerly, to prevent detection. Before the trade was clan. 'destine, the captains of vessels were sufficiently cruel in their treatment of the kidnapped Afri 'cans•--but now the most ingenious calculations a►e made to ascertain the smallest quantities 'af air and space, and sustenance, which may keep soul a►►d body together in beings chain ed between decks, under a tropical sun, and concealed, during a long voyage, by various contrivnn'ces, in a situation revolting to the lenses—the inmates of a living tomb of men tal misery and bodily exhaustion. There is scarcely .a day that we do not hear of some of the: atrocities of those marine monsters,—the cap tains of French slave-ships ; and whenever a cap ture takes place, there is a frightful detail of the expedients to which they can resort to make the additio►►al torture of their victims subservient to the secresy of the enterprise. We published yesterday.an account of one of those vessels hav ing been driven into St. Ives by stress of ►►eather, fitted up with all tl►e• dreadful apparatus of chains, thumbscrews, &c., and having five slaves on board, the remains of a former cargo, with which she was proceeding again to Africa, pro. hably intending to make them useful in coming at more of their countrymen. It was stated in the letter which mentions I he transaction, that Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Stephen, having heard of the circumttance, had applied to Chief Justice Best for, a Habeas Corpus to bring those five slaves to London, which was granted. if these parti. culars be authentic, the perpetual deriders of the common Law of England may see one of its glo rious principles curried into effect, by making those chained and tortured slaves freemen, the moment they touch the soil of Britain. This was a principle recognized in this country before the abolition of the Slave Trade—no statute had enacted it. There were SOllle, indeed, whose in terests led them to deny it al one time, but the exertions of Mr. Granville Sharp, and some other friends of humanity, placed , it beyond ail doubt. Let those English 66 reformer s ," who see nothing good but in foreign institutions, learn that, in some points at least, the laws► of their own coun try may be viewed, even by 44 philosophers" with something unlike contempt. (BRITISH Pit KlM] The official returns of the Revenue, which we lay befoie our readers, are by no means calcu lated to Warrant the apprehensions that have been expressed by some of our contemporaries. On the year' which has just terminated, there is, com pared with , the preceding one, a deciease of i,03,9401. TMs is unquestionably much less than wag e*Rected, considering the injurious effects that must have resulted lately from the stagna. tion of business and financial distress of the com mercial; work!. :The reduction of taxes has also necessarily reduced the productiveness of ,the reveling 'The loss sustained by the drawback on winejs estimated at upwards of 1,000,0001., and : the' ,discotitinuanue of a portion of the tobacco duty. does not amount to less than 300,0001, ,W hen to these we add what would have beers yielded by the (hales remitted by various Acts of the hit Session, it will be apparent that the pre , ent account is highly satisfactory, and justifii,s in the fullest manner the expectations that were formed respecting it. In consequence of the transfer of duties from the Excise to the Costoms, we cannot accurately distinguish the ;dative inetease ,decrease of -those two great branches of the revenue. In every inferior source of income there was an increase during the last year. The excess of the Stamp duties, as compared with the previous year, was '244,1376; in the Post.office, it was 73,0001.; and in the Tax deportment 68,0681. The total revenue for the year ending the oth of January, 185tH, was 48,812,7591.; that for the year ending on the some day 8%5, was 48,073,8106 The return for the quarter is at first sight loss favourable than that for the year. The apparent decrease is 1,180,906/. Bat this is easily explained by the untoward cir cumstances to which we have already referred. All of them have operated with peculiar force during the late quarter. In the corresponding season of jest year there were large importations of silk, on account of which heavy payments were made into the Treasury, while latterly, for many months, t h e p ur chases leave been few and him). siderable. The distilleries, also, have not been *worked with a view to yelling themselves as fully as posinle, when they can, of the repealed duties en. F roci this alone the Excise has 1133 .0 1 1,4 E9itcerial diminution of its usual re. celpts. pressura in the Money-market has unavoidably induced the ,postponement of many other pigments,' which in the ordinary coutse of things, would have - been included in the accounts of the last quarter., In some cases, for the pre sent, 'Lis impossible that these payments tan be , made without utter ruin to the individuals from whom they are due ; and in such instances his Majesty's Government have considerately, re frained from aggravating the then existing embar rassments. The same causes have disinclined merchants from taking goods out of the warehouses beyond the actual demand of the moment. Upon the whole, therefore, we feel ourselves entitled to congratulate the public that the net produce of the revenue of Great Britain has so well main tained itself under the extraordinary and unparal leled pressure it has endured. We shall con clude with a piece of intelligence of the most gratifying nature, both as regards the revenue itself and the country, whose progress in wealth and commerce it demonstratively indicates. We understand that the receipts in Ireland, during the last year, have exceeded those' of the preced ing twelve months. [THE T1111: , .] The contents of Paris papers and letters of Wednesday set conjecture at rest with respect to the succession to the Russian throne, end at the same time explain the extraordinary circumstance of its being so long vacant. It would appear that the two imperial brothers, Constantine and Nicholas, had vied with each other in a generous renunciation of their respective claims—the for mer from a faithful adherence to an old et►gage meat, and the latter from respect to rights which no engagement could cancel. Nicholas refused to reign under the will of the late Emperor, who, according to the uncertain rules of succession in Russia, couhi appoint his successor; and Constan tine, who was bound to resign his pretensions by a family compact, refused to make his legitimacy available against a voluntary surrender. The former proclaimed the absent Emperor, and took the oaths of allegiance to,him : the latter, disre garding his birth-right, offered submission to Nicholas I. Russia was thus in the strange pre dicameut of having two self-denying Emperors, and no active ruler. The crown of the Czars was in abeyance, till couriers passed between Warsaw and Petersburgh. Each brother was in his turn a subject and a sovereign, and both stood at the portals of power, amicably disputing the point of precedence. Constantine has at last submitted to take the command of forty millious of men ; and from ,the generous conduct of his brother, will most likely be induced to ap. point him his successor, to the exclusion of his left-handed family. Probably this was all that the deceased Emperor wished to accomplish by stipulating for Constantine's renunciation. We some time ago mentioned that the late judgment iu the case of the French press, which gave so much satisfaction to the nation, produced a con trary feeling at Court ; and we are informed by one of our letters from Paris, that Charles X., in his receptio►► of the President and Coun cillors of the Cour Royale, on the occasion of the new year, testified his highest displeasure in no unequivocal manner. 'When the Pre sident, M. lieguier, presented hi►nself to deliver the complimentary address of the season, the King listened to him with apparent disdain, re plied to him with unceremonious brevity, and disitissed him' with rude abruptness. When the her appeared, his Majesty asked particularly for M. Bellart,.who had advised the prosecution and drawn up the indictment. That gentleman was absent from bad health, and his Majesty seemed anxious, by - his kind inquiries after him, to con vince his courtiers that his insulting treatment of the Judges was a designed contrast, calculated to instruct those who desired to secure his favour. M. de Seguier and his brother were consoled for this neglect by the enthusiastic reception which they met with from the Duke of Orleans, and the constitutional friends of the monarchy, [TUE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris Papers of Wed. nesday, and the Doile of Thursday. A letter in the latter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 17th ult. unravels the mystery in which the succession to the Throne of the Czars has been hitherto in volved. It bears us out in our surmises, that the report which was current on the subject was either radically vicious; or, if the foundation had any Solidity, that the superstructure was rotten. 1n the latter part ut our reasoning, we were per . - reedy right ; for it appears that Constantine had, on his second marriage, been prevailed upon to renounce his right to the thr one , io favour of Nicholas. But as this was a sacrifice to pas,ien, and another proof of the impetuosity of his chn. racter, he would no doubt, under the influence of a new and stronger passion, have retracted ; and thus the flames of a civil war would, in all pro' bability, have been lighted up throughout that vast Empire, had Nicholas attempted to enforce the agreement. The late Emperor, however, is not free from blame, in having exacted such ,a concession from his brother ; but this fertile sort of mischief to the peace of the empire has been fortunately checked in time, by the forbearance or pusillanimity of the Prince whom he had d v sig.. nated'as his successor. We have now ' a clue to the continued stay of COnstantine at Warsaw, which the courtly writer in the Etoile ascribes to a mug. nanimous determination to abide by the renuncia tion be bad made under the influence of an intoxi cating impulse. If the truth, however, were known, it would he found perbaps, that be was, guided - by an atWous desire alone to know how his Brother, the Directing Senate,and the Mini. stern of the late Emperor, Would act anti , r the circumstances. At Warsaw, he could attempt to set aside the instrurrieet he had signed iu a mo ment of blind passlim-; :but had he proceeded at once to St. Petersburgh, it would be a matter of chance whether he ascended the Thione 'or met the fate of his father. '' [MOitI , II,NG POST.] We rpci.ived last night,' by Express, French Papers to the.sth inst. and the• Mode of Thurs. day. Thu letter contains cote intelligence from St. Peterbburgh. which, though given • in the shape of a private letter, evidently possesses a character of authenticity. It raises the veil which has so long covered the real state of the question respecting the succession to the Russian Throne, and the first fact which it reveals is the very one which we stated immediately after receiving intelligence of Alexander's death, and which had been since denied by most papers at home and abroad as totally in compatible with the tender friendship which was said .to prevail between the late Emperor and Con stantine. It is now openly acknowledged that by a solemn act to which Constantine had been made to become a party, Alexander had excluded him from the succession to the Crown. Of this " Secret Act" three copies were taken and depo. sited respectively with the Senate, the Synod, and the Supreme Council of the Empire., with orders not to he opened till after the death of Alex ander. It appears, therefore, that this Monarch had taken every possible precaution to prevent Constantine from becoming . Emperor. The cause assigned for this symptom of extraordinary "'af fection" towards •his brother is evidently inade quate and unfounded. lie is said to have been rendered incompetent to reign at the instigation of his own Mother, and because he wished to marry the daughter of a Polish Nobleman. This at best might have affected the claims of his issue, but not, his personal rights ; and to suppose that he could have be brought to sign his own degradation without a suffi cient cause, is to betray a total ignorance both of the character of the individual and of the nature of roan. However, knowing well the reasons which had forced him to consent to such an act, he justly - felt that it was not in his power after the death of Alexander to cl a i m openly n throne which he had renounced.— Hence we are told arose his determination to remain at Warsqw, and to await the course of events. The. Secret Act was 'produced, and the Grand Duke ' Nicholas to whom it gave the crown, with a degree of generosity which proved him worthy to wear it, immediately rejected the splendid possession and was the first to take and to make others tpke the oath of fide lity to his brother. This, it is remarkable., seems to have been effected without any opposition po the part of the Mother Empress, who, according to the version of the ,toile, was the real author of Constantine's exclusion. Numerous Couriers were then sent to Wnrsaw to inform Constantine that he was Emperor, and at Ihe date of the letter (Dec. 17th) his arrival was daily expected. [NEW TIMES.] We yesterday received by Express the Etale; of Thursday with the Journals of Wednesday. We had received private intelligence from St. Petersburgh, which the Eiaile confirms, but which will' rank among the most extraordinary narratives of modern times. It k briefly this. Constantine, - some years ago, fixed his affec tions on the • daughter of a private gentle. turn in Poland. According to the Russian system, his marriage' with her would be deemed a. mrstaleunce, and their children could not succeed to the throne. The marriage was, therefore opposed by the Empress Mother, and consequently by Alexander, but at length the latter yielded to the wishes, of Constantin e , u p on the latter's signing, a document, renouncing the tutcession in favour of the Archduke Nicholas. The nuptials took place, and Constantine is still doatingly fond of the Pri ncess his consort, who, On her part, is of . a retired and domestic turn of mind. When the news reached St. Petersburg!' of the death of the Emperor Alexander, the document, which Constantine had signed, and attested in triplicate, was opened and read : but Nicholas refused to uct upon its con ditions:: and instead of placing the Crown on his own heath, he, and after-him the whole imperial Family, the Senate, &c. look the oaths of fidelity to Constantine. The latter, meanwhile, con scious of the solemn engagements into which he had entered, and contemplating no violation of them, remained quietly' at Warsaw, when he heard of the demise of. his brother. At length, however,cenriersdispatched from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, apprised him of the course which events lied taken,And yielding to the will of his august Brother, of the Imperial Family, th e Se n a te, ' and the constituted Authorities, he consented to ascend the vacant throne. His pre4ence in St. Petersburg was momentarily expected, and the tiny or arrival Was to be the only suspension 'of that public mourning which had been ordered for the deceased Monarch. It is quite unpre cedented- in history to See so great a Throne s that of Russia yolunterily declined by two Princes, and a contest of affection taking place .letween two brothers, which of them shall be permitted to yield up his pretensions' to, the other. The Doile also contains two remarkable letters of the now, widowed Empress, whose exemplary affec tion: - for her illustrious consort must . eleVate her character, for piety, for dornestic'virthe, end for amiable, feeling, in the mind of every one . 'who reads them. - The strong affection of .the wife .; spea, l o . *lse ationgly to favour of the husband. Thit — Emperor Alexander is Well knowrir to have possessed great affability in his intercourse with all classes Of people : and it would seem that this disposition became with in the imperial Circle an amiable and endearing warmth . of affectiou. • EMORNING The transactions on the Stock Exchange yes terday ware not so satisfactory as on the 'pre. ceding 'day'; and from the heaviness of the mar ket, there 'was a trilling decline in prices.— The state of 'things was attributed' 'to va rious causes, but principally to the URN 'vOinable state of the Revenue for the last quarter. ' 'Other reas on s were aaSiood, but they were Vagne„ and i in many instances, merely visionary. It was a holiday . at the' Battli So that the .was principally' retained to specula: teons for tite intcre South Abterican Pund's I - • there was '3l tee n e o f a b o ut two per ceilt:; but nothing oCettered'in. the Share Market icorthy cif remark. 4.private &ds, discounts are still difficult to be obtained, but sanguine hopes are entertained that things will lie better next KENT WINTER ASSIZES. MAIDSTONE, THURSDAY, JAN. 5. Bcfore'llfr. Barbs Ilutr.oc x. Joseph Blundell and Samuel Knight were indicted under Lord Ellenborohgh's Adt, for maliCiously cutting George Pear son, with intent to murder him, at East Farleigh, on the 22d of November last. The prisoners had been committed under the Poaching Act, 57 Geo. 111. lt appeared in evidence that the prosecutor, who is a servant in the employment of a gentleman of fortune, named Charlton, at East Farleigh, was out in one of his master's woods, on the night of the 22d November, for the purpose of protecting the game, and whilst in the act of preventing some pheasants from settling on the trees, the prisoner Blundell came up and struck him. A violent'scuffie ensued, and the prosecutor received several blows from a gttn which the prisoner had in his hand, the butt-end of which broke off: There was: another man in the prisoner's company, who could not be identified. The pri soner and his companion; after the scutil:., ran off, leaving the prosecutor senseless , on the ground. - An assistant of the pro secutor had left him when the affray commenced, for the pur pose of procuring assistance. When the prosecutor came to himself, he found that he was desperately wounded in the left thigh, with a knife, or some other sharp instrument. The wound penetrated to the bone. On the scene of action were left a clasp knife, and the fragments of a gun, the latter of which formed part of a gun which the prisoner Knight had got re paired at Maidstone on the 23d of Nov, Positive evidence was given of Blundell's identity, but the case against Knight rested only upon circumstances of strongs suspicion. A stir geon, who had examined the prosecutor's wounds, proved that the wound on his thigh must have been inflicted with a sharp instrument. He had sustained other bodily injuries. The prisoners denied their guilt, but the Jury, under the Learnd Judge's directions, found Knight Not Guilty, and Blundell Guilty, against whom sentence of death was re corded. George Lawrence was indicted for assaulting John Hawley, an infant of the tender:age of two years, at Gravesend, on the bth November, with intent to murder hint. The prisoner, by trade a shoemaker, had married the mo. ther of the little boy, and lived with her at Gravesend. In the course of October and November, the next-door neighbours had their attention aroused on several occasions by the brutal ill treatment of the child by the prisoner. They remonstrated with him upon his misconduct, but he reproached them for' interfering with him the management of his own family. On the night of the sth of November, Mrs. Armstrong, a next door neighbour, heard the violent cries of the child, and the splashing of some water in the prisoner's sitting-room. She looLd out at the window anti saw the prisoner immersing the child in a tub of water, itti voice being nearly stifled in its struggles for life. Upon calling to the prisoner, he abused her in violent terms, and told her that he had' a right to do what he pleased with his own. He said that the child was dirty in its habits, and that he only wanted to cure them. Next day the prisoner was taken up, and on examining the child's body, it was found marked in several places with severe bruises from the blade.bones to the legs. When taken before the Ma gistrates, the prisoner admitted that he had struck the child once in a passion, and put him into the water once, merely to cure him of certain offensive - habits. The prisoner now declared that lie had had no intention of injuring the child beyond moderate correction. The Jury, under the learned Judge's direction, acquitted the prisoner of the intention to murder the child, hut convicted him of an assault, anti he was sentenced to three months' imprison ment in the county gaol. John Wilson Ward was indicted for violating the person of Maria Smith, at Dartford, on the 2d October. This case ex cited considerable interest. The prisoner was a married man, and carried on the business of a hair-dresser at DarttOrd. The prosecutrix, an orphan, 12 years of age, resided with her step-mother, who carried on the business of a baker in the :tame town. On the day in question the prisoner came into Mrs Smith's house, to spend the evening with her journeyman and an uncle of the prosecutrix. In the course of the evening the uncle and the journeyman left the bakehouse, where they had been sitting with the prisoner and the girl, leaving both the latter together. In the interval the prisoner effected his purpose, under every circumstance of vio lence, as sworn to by the child, who was a girl of healthy con. stitution. On the part of the prisoner, the journeyman swore that he never left the bakehouse during the whole evening, and that it was impossible the offence could have been committed. It appeared that the girl never mentioned the transaction until three days after it occurred. The Jury, after an elaborate summing up, found the pri soner —Not Guilty. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. A CHILD MOST INFAMOUSLY DESERTED. Among the great variety of disgraceful and unnatural frauds and impositions which it has fallen to our lot to record, we seareelyremembe r one, reflecting more complete dishonour upon the wicked parties concerned, than the fol lowing, which has already more than once appeared in our co lumns;: and we again advert to the cruel circumstances, in the anxious hope that this article may meet the eyes of the unhappy parents, or of others who may feel interested in the fate of this unfortunate child. About two years and a half ago, a tine male infant, about four or five months old, was placed at nurse by.a Lady and Gentleman of apparently great respectability. The Gentleman first called to view the situation, and after making many in quiries, said he was satisfied. This assurance he ;afterwards repeated by a letter to the nurse, mentioning the day on which the child might be expected. A day or two afterwards, a well-dressed female brought,the child, which she said was the child the Gentleman had previ ously called about, and that it was four months old, remark ing at the same time, that the child was not her own, but that of'a friend who was ill, and then at Brighton. She then in. quired whether the nurse had received a letter from the gentle man who called ? and whether the postage had been paid ? ob eerving that it was a frequent practice among servants, after receiving money for the purpose of paying postage, to pocket it, and let the letter go unpaid. The nurse said she certainly had received the letter, of which, however, the postage had not been paid. She th er eup on gave thei letter into the hands of the Lady, who immediately rut it in her pocket, for the supposed purpose of charging the servants with the fraud. After presenting the nurse with a sovereign, and a card of address (where the nurse might apply, should any thing he wanting), she took her leave, assuring the nurse that she should frequently call and see the child. The very respectable appearance of the parties banished all suspicion from the mind of the nurse ; but, no one having called,eand the child being in want of necessaries, sbe ap plied according to the direction on the card, when she disco vered, to her utter astonishment, that the card was a decep tion ; in consequence of which, being a woman -in humble life, and who could not afford to maintain the child, she was proceeding with it to .a workhouse, when most fortunately for the infant, the circumstance came under the observation of ' Mrs Bishop, the principal Officer of his Majesty' s G ao l o f Newgate ; who, with that huManity to which the public elle no strangers, immediately took the deserted infant under his pru. tection, and has ever since brought it up and maintained it as a child of his own, at his private cost. The child is a remarkably lovely, active, and promising boy ; has beautiful blue eyes, with a very fair complexion, and Is still an inmate of hie Majesty's Gaol of Newgate. It gives us great pleasure to record this feeling and honour - able conduct on the part of 'Mr. Bishop, to whose humanity in the discharge of hie arduous, and frequently painful tit:ties, for the last tit*teen years, every prisoner who has been in Newgate i could bear most ample testimony. : anti we have no small de- gree of satisfaction in doing this further act of justice to a character so rare in the present degenerate age, by adding, that the respectable g ent l eman now a ll u d ed to is the genie Mr. Bishop, who, some years since, was honoured by his Majesty's personal thanks, for his active and prompt attention to him, when Prince of Wales, on occasion of his Royal Iligness's ' carriage breaking down in South A udley-street. tW LONDON BRiDGE.—The first stoat. of the land abutment on the Southwark side, was laid on Saturday lest, on which occasion the ComMittee gave 101. to the work. men, which wait joyously spent, at Mr. Clifford's, the Plough and Harrow, Cham.gate. The bridge itself is in u state of great forwardness, the masonry on that side, to the centr e arc h, 4ing nearly level with high watermark, and will ere long as. some an imposing appearance. • iti a morneet of public' excitement, every thing which tends to increase the alarm" is greedily swallowed. A ,report has been industriously circulated, that 4 sail of th e li ne, and some smaller vessels, are to be sent immediately to th e Alediterrantan, , Tto,guard against the supposed wa r lik e project,i Coatitantine, the new Buiperor of Russia. Nothing h as og . ettrred here to warrant such a rumour. Both at our clock-yard arid in The harbour. every thing pyoceeds in the usual course, arid there doe, not appear the least mtitnation of any extra naval armanient being about to be. equipped. At Portsmouth ..there art 5 sail of the line, which might be fitted for active service at a Isliort notice,' but in ti at pdrtifle'saine.trtnquilllty is obterv 1, and no credence is attached to the report (pi Ittooh ur),al.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-S TREE T. Yesterday afternoon, when the regular business of tbt:oioe had closed, Mr. Chas. Rom, the singer and compose of Drorfr lane Theatre, was brought before Mr. HALLS, on a wsn'sritt charged with an assault upon an Irishman named Tyson, who tills the situation of porter at the stage-door of the establish ment mentioned. Tyson's statement was, that cm Thursday, at the time of the performers assembling for rehearsal, Mr. Horn came to the stage-door, accompanied by two young gentlemen, his son and his nephew, and they were all about to enter into the house, but witness had received orders that none but those immediate ly connected with the theatre should be allowed to pass, and he therefore put his hand before one of the young gentlernen, and was telling him that he could not pass, when Mr. Horn gave him " a sort of blow" on the breast, which sent him against the wall at the other end of the lodge. - "Mr. Horn begged, before he entered upon his defence, to ask - tTie complainant a question or two. Mr. HALLS said he was perfectly at liberty to put any ques tion he pleased, and Mr. Horn asked the complainant if Miss Stephens's niece, Alias Johnson, Mr. Liston's family, Mr. W oth ers , allack's, and were not admitted every day without any objection being offe red ? The complainant said they certainly were. Mr. Horn—And pray, did you not yesterday admit Mr. 'Aston's son immediately after you had stopped the two young gentlemen who accompanied me ? The complainant said he could not tell whether he did or not, for the day was too dark to distinguish faces; and at all events, if he did admit Mr. Liston's son, he had acted contrary to the orders given to hint by the management. Mr. Horn, in his defence, said, that it had always been the custom for performers to take their relatives or friends to rehearsals and when he went with his son and nephen'i °n Thursday, the complainant very rudely stopped them, at which he felt vexed, and .he certainly pushed the porter aside, but it was done with.gentleness, and not violently, as had been stated. No obstruction had ever been offered to his friends until during the rehearsal of the hat opera, when he took Mrs. Horn with him, and he received a hint that it was not desirable that he should bring any person with him. Th 6 friends of the other performers were allowed free ingress to the Theatre, as the complainant had admitted, rand having very good reason to believe that the prohibition with respect to him arose from private pique on the part of one individualin the management, he certainly felt disposed to resist it. N. HALLS said, that an assault had been sworn to, - but it was committed under such circumstarices . that be did not think himself warranted in holding him. Horn to bail. It seemed to have arisen out of a disputed matter of right, and he should therefore have the complainant to his remedy by indictment at sessions, it' he thought tit to adopt that course. Mr. Horn win: discharged. HATTON-GA R.DE N. Yesterday Mr. Henry Butterworth, the Common Council man of Farringdon Without, attended before the Sitting Ma gistrate, in order to explain his conduct, in regard to a para graph which had appeared a few days since in all the papers, relating to a cushion and hassock, and a pew In St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row. .Mr. B. stated that he only arrived in town on Thursday afternoon, and had thought it his duty in the first instance, before the Magistrate, to explain all that he had done. The complaint, he observed was made by Mr. Ken-, ton, a gentleman unknown to hint, except as being fellow& worshippers in the saute chapel; the cushion and hassock in question were originally purchased with other articles of pew furniture, jointly by him (Mr. B.), Dr . Blake, and a Mr. Sa bine ; Dr. Blake had left the chapel, as had also Air. Sa bine, andihe (Mr. B.) had not attended for the last two years, in consequence of his having attmtled regularly IA St. Dun- . stan's, and the cushion, &c. being clearly his, he, about two months since, sent to fetch them away. During the time that he had not attended the chapel Mr. Kenton and his tarnily . were permitted to occupy the pew and- use the cushier" and as there was one of another description belong ing to Mr. Kenton, in the chapel, he had mistaken the one in question for his owl.. fie did not wish to accuse lUr, Kenton of having ;mule a false charge, but tonsidered that he certainly must labour under a mistake, as there could not be the least doubt of the cushion, &c., being his (Mr. B.'s) Pre* perty, and he was only anxious that, as the statement of Mr. Kenton had gone forth to the world, it should be publicly con tradicted. Mr. ROOErts, the Magistrate, fully concurred in this, but at the same time observed, that no one who had read the report alluded to, and knew Mr. Butterworth could entertain the molt remote opinion unfavourable to him ; he added, that he believed Mr. Kenton had of late suffered much distress of mind, owing to the death of his wife, which might, to a great exteiat, account for his extraordinary application to the Magistrates; but be (Mr. Rogers) could run conceive that Mr. Butterworth's con duct stood the least in need of justiOcatiOn.--.11r..8. then left the Office. PURCHASING- BANR NOTES. , --As some of our readers might perhaps be disposed to purchase, at a discount, the notes of such banks as have lately failed, we think it right to state, for the in formation of those who may not be acquainted with the luw on the so bject,that persons who pur chase notes after a commission of bankruptcy has issued against the bank by which they were issued, catmot prove on the estate, in respect to such notes; and even if the notes are purchased before the bankruptcy, the purchasers can only prove for the amount they really and bona fid" l paid for them.—(Bath Herald.) COAL MARKET, J. 6. Adairs 36s 6d—Beaumont 3.5 s —Hebburn Alain 40s—He 1 7' well 3 - 8 s 6a—Rlllingsworth 4ls 3d—Percy East 36s 6d--ShiP cote 37s 3d—Tanfield Moor 39s—Townly 36s 6d—Willington 41s 6d—Walls End Bewicke and Co. 42a 9d—Walls End Green's 37s—Wa11s End Riddell's 42s 6d_ Walls End ROL" sell's 42s 6 d—Hetton's small 1 6s—Tanfield Trader 38s—D 6 ". , byshire 26s—Redworth Main 335—Lambton Primrose 4 01-- Lyon's Main 41s 6d—Sealtam 295--Walls End Stewart's 41s• Ships at Market 31—Sbipa Sold lg—Unsold 364, COURSE OF EXCHANGE, JAn. 6. A enstet dent ig e 7 F. C. Ditto, at Sight 12 4 Itntterdani - Pi 9 Antwerp 7 i d 47 4 if 17, • Hamlin, gli i 7 .5 2+ 1: 6 4 Altonn I '" ht Parii,3 Joy 4, sig , i ) . 55 : 06 4 50 0 5 ;31 0 LI C :: Ditto Botirdeatte, ditto Berlin Frank room) the Main .. ' • Peteasborgh ‘. &lune, H 90 Vienna H Trieste ,• , , , ~., .461 Effective Madrid Cadiz Bilbna 36 Barceloue 3h gerille Gihratta; 3t Leghorn ' Goma ...434-Venice, Ital. Lit'. --- Malta Palermo 190 per - Oa. . _ Lisbon . - • Opni to RIO Janeiro Retain Buenos Ayres .......................... a 49 ... 434 Madill .94 ........ Cork 9; pea Cent. 6)4 BULLION. Portugal G0141,i ti Coin 0 , 11 / .0 0 °p . er ~ Foreign (401 d, in B ars 317 6 ' , New Doittil uotis ......... 3 14 3 New D011 ar5... .. Silver Standard in Bars... ...- ••• • • • ...Mak.........................._ - - At Clifton, an th e 26 t h ult Col. Yorke, l a t e DapotP—Lieu ~ tenant of the Tower. On .Thursd4Y. the 6th. inst., in the 30th year of his title' George Frederick, t h e eldest son of Mr. Itaggett, of 38 , ''' James's.street. Drowned, ot t . h oar d the Christiana. of Glasgow' outwa rd:: bound to Trinid a d, and wrecked on Paterson's Rock, Aluil °' Kintyre, on the I st or 11 of 'November last, William Cor"P' bell, younger, of Skerrington, aged 18.. of on the 4th inst., at Hastings, Philip Douglas Firrnint Croudleharn-house, Kenning, Kent, aged 60. , . • • ..'.: - - Printed and Published for the PnoPRIETORI, at the SV OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CAROTAIRS.